Recently, a new faculty member asked me about how David Kolb’s Learning Styles, that developed out of his Experiential Learning Theory, and the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) intersect or relate […]

Imagine this… a website where thousands of films are hosted and can be watched for free… where, if you can’t find a film, you can request that it be added with a good chance that you’ll get your wish… where […]

We’ve created a new website to help instructors using iClickers in their classes. Check it out here: http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/iclickers. If you have any suggestions for the site, please contact Inés Berrizbeitia: iib@uvm.edu

UVM’s Blackboard now has tools that allow instructors to connect their courses to publishers’ online textbook materials and assessments.
In the past, publishers sometimes offered “course cartridges” to place […]

Applications are now being accepted for the UVM Hybrid Course Initiative program (phase 3) through Monday, November 3rd at 5pm! Read more about teaching hybrid courses, about the initiative, and the benefits in […]

[The professor’s] only difficulty … was to get [students] to talk at all. He had to devise schemes to find what they were thinking about and induce them to risk criticism from their fellows.— The Education of […]

Tip #1: Learn names. Jonathan Leonard (CDAE) makes the effort to learn every student’s name, even when he has hundreds of students. His strategy is to open the class roster page in Banner and display the students’ […]

I wrote this post a couple of years ago and I want to share it again because the resources are so valuable.
Getting students in gear for learning is really about preparing students to become active agents in […]

On May 14th, UVM’s Blackboard will be getting some new features and enhancements.
What’s new?
There are a number of minor cosmetic changes coming. For example, the logout button now looks like a power […]

It’s that time of year when “senioritis” runs rampant and many students are either avoiding the reality of needing to search for a job or they’re not sure how to begin. Tomorrow, April 11th, we’re offering a […]